Document Outline

• Xnews User Manual
• 1 Introducing Xnews
  • The newsroom workflow with the Vertigo Suite
• 2 Installing and integrating Xnews into your NCS System
  • Integrating Xnews into your newsroom computer system (iNEWS or ENPS)
  • Installing Xnews on a NCS workstation
  • Configuring the xnews.ini file
    • Enabling the Playout Preview setting
    • Enabling Embedded Pages or Shared Pages mode
    • Enabling Privates Pages mode
    • Editing the MOS version for iNEWS
  • Starting Xnews for the first time
  • Xnews licensing
  • Configuring the Xnews settings
    • Servers settings
    • Backup Server settings
    • Preferences settings
    • Defaults settings
    • MOS settings
    • Spell Check settings
    • Logging settings
• 3 Familiarizing yourself with the Xnews Interface
  • Opening Xnews in ENPS
  • Opening Xnews in iNEWS
  • Overview of the Xnews interface
  • Toolbar buttons on the Xnews interface
  • Using the Asset Browser in Xnews
    • Opening/hiding the Asset Browser panel
    • Refreshing a category
    • Adding a new category
    • Setting access permissions for an asset category
  • Asset Gallery, Home Area and Status bar
    • Changing the view style (Detail or Proxy)
    • Opening a template or page in the Home Area
    • Changing the edit and creation settings for shared pages
    • Zooming in/out of a template or page on the Home Area
    • Displaying a listing of Work Orders or Jobs
  • Using the Drag bar to create embedded pages and clips
  • Searching for assets on the Xmedia Server
  • Creating and using Work Orders
    • Creating a new work order and an initial job request
    • Viewing existing work orders and/or jobs
    • Adding a job to an existing work order
    • Removing a work order or job from the XMS
    • Fulfilling jobs using assets stored on the Xmedia Server
    • Fulfilling jobs using images from the AP Graphics Bank
• 4 Preparing to use Xnews
  • Creating templates in Xstudio
  • Choosing between embedded, shared or private pages
  • Creating a clip template in Xstudio for clip playout
    • Creating a clip template
    • Specifying the clip template on a device’s configuration
• 5 Embedded Pages: Creating, editing and previewing
  • Creating a new embedded page from a template
  • Opening an existing embedded page
  • Changing a template’s editable fields
  • Replacing an image, cel animation or a clip on a page
  • Editing a page’s image using the Image Editor
    • Zooming in/out and repositioning the image
    • Cropping an image
    • Making color adjustments
    • Adjusting the sharpness of an image
    • Using the Image Modification buttons to flip an image
  • Previewing the on-air look of a page
  • Saving and adding embedded pages to a story
• 6 Shared Pages: Creating, editing and previewing
  • Creating a new shared page from a template
  • Opening an existing shared page
  • Editing and previewing a shared page
  • Saving shared pages to the Xmedia Server
  • Adding shared pages to a story
• 7 Acquiring images from the AP Graphics Bank
  • Enabling AP Graphics Bank integration in the Xmedia Server
  • Searching the AP Graphics Bank for images
  • Adding AP Graphics Bank preview images to a Page
  • Purchasing AP Graphics Bank images
• 8 Clip Assets: Opening and editing the Mark In/Out settings
  • Locating and opening a clip asset using the Xnews Asset Browser
  • Preview and editing the clip’s mark in/out settings
    • Overview of the standalone Mark In/Out Editor interface in ENPS
    • Overview of the embedded Mark In/Out Editor interface in iNEWS
    • Setting the Trim In and/or Trim Out points
    • Previewing the clip in the standalone Mark In/Out Editor
• 9 Creating and working with stories and rundowns in ENPS
  • Creating a new rundown in ENPS
  • Creating a new story within a rundown in ENPS
  • Opening a story and adding graphics pages and/or clips in ENPS
  • Saving a story to a rundown in ENPS
• 10 Creating and working with stories in INEWS
  • Adding a new story to a rundown in iNEWS
  • Opening a story and adding a page or clip in iNEWS
  • Opening a page or clip that belongs to a story in iNEWS
• 11 Playing out rundowns using Xplay
  • Overview of the Xplay interface
  • Opening a rundown in Xplay
  • Updating and reloading a rundown in Xplay
    • Configuring Xplay’s update and reload settings
    • Manually reloading a rundown in Xplay
  • Verifying device connections in Xplay
  • Playing out a rundown in Xplay
    • Automatic playout mode
    • Manual playout mode